Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If they assigned you a trip outside the contractual requirements you are do assignment pay for that trip. You should have called contract admin and requested they investigate the trip coverage. I get paid every time they make a error. If you accept it they will just keep doing it.
Which is good- unless the trips are near identical in pay and pay wasn't the purpose of the request.
I've flat out been told before "sorry, I didn't look [at PCS requests]..." So it's one thing for SC which can be fixed but another for actual trip assignments.
To me if they're too busy they just blow it off. And you go from #1 with the lowest raw score requesting a specific trip on Christmas to #1 getting a trip that is 180 degrees from what you want and nobody was assigned any trips via a discernible contractual reason.
The schedulers simply go, #1 pilot gets first trip, #2 pilot gets second trip and so on. So being #1 means you get the earliest show.
It'd be nice if it was 100% computerized.
Now you can call ahead but I guess they've lost control over there because it's never a pleasant experience to call them anymore. "WE DON'T RUN THE RUO UNTIL 8AM AND WE'LL LOOK AT IT THEN!!!"
Very RJ like schedulers these days.